Giant bloom very soon after planted.

So Glad I Went Back

I was driving to an appointment in St. Joe, MO and noticed a greenhouse set up in a closed-down K-Mart parking lot. Luckily, I turned around to see what they might have.
I picked up a few more pepper plants, a couple of tomatoes, a 4-pack of those pink petunias and this glorious plant!

It's only been in the ground a couple of weeks, so it totally surprised me to find this bloom on it the other morning. The plant is only about a foot tall, so you can see the bloom is at least 6 inches across!

When I moved back to the farm a few years ago, I transplanted 3 hibiscus plants that I had transplanted 3 times. They did not survive this last transplant. So, I am thrilled to once again have hibiscus back in my landscape.

Why I plant flowers

• I don't plant flowers
  • for me to enjoy
    • though I do enjoy looking at flowers very much!
• I plant flowers
  • to enjoy watching others
    • enjoying the flowers!!!
• That is where I find the most joy from flowers...

Help?

I stepped away from Steem for a while and now it's Hive.

Can anyone point me to their favorite gardening communities?
(Communities were talked about but not part of the infrastructure when I stepped away...)
Recommendations on any good communities I should check out?

Can anyone point me to ideas on good topics to use.
There used to be some photo tags that got you hmm haha I don't remember. Maybe once you used the tag enough they would upvote you?
I bet @simplymike 👋👋👋 would know. She used to do the monthly garden challenges. I'll head over to check out her latest posts...

Hibiscus pic is original by me, Wizard and Key is clipart I've been using for over 25 years, the Veteran logo is hmm I forget who, but someone back when this was Steemit created it for we veterans...

Who I am	@WizarDave		The KEY to life!